Developer posts and news about this game.
One month into Early Access, and the first discount Steam allows is live: 65% off, $6.99 instead of $19.99, through October 21. If you wish listed and waited, this is the window. What has changed since launch day: a month of bug fixes from the players who came in first, most of t
BATTLES - Enemy vehicles now keep coming at you, one after another, until you go inside a building or kill the commander. - The commander never comes first. CRASHES - Ram an enemy vehicle in the buggy or on skis and you crash, at any speed. The enemy vehicle is destroyed too. - A
New Intro film on the title screen. Skip with Enter, Space or Escape. The enemy headquarters is hidden at the start. Recruit enough of your team to reveal it; the Frostopedia explains how. Snow buggies can roll over. Crossing a steep side slope too fast rolls the buggy; a windscr
The first update since launch, and it is a big one This one collects everything done since the build you are playing. Keyboard and mouse are unchanged. FIXED 🐄 Team management: hand the driving to a companion, the buggy stays with the group, a prisoner never rides. The enemy hun
Midwinter v27.4 - everything since v26, tested through the day. Crashes and rescues After any crash - skis, snowbuggy or hang glider - you get up facing away from whatever you hit. A rescue now shows the crash and your injuries before anything else; the village screen comes after
Main changes Pausing with P and then opening a screen could leave you stuck, with your mouse clicks ignored. It no longer does, and the game stays paused when you close the screen: the world no longer runs on under the PAUSED banner. When you make a companion the LEADER while rid
Fixed - A crash, power cut or full disk during a save can no longer destroy your previous save. If a save cannot be written, the game now tells you and your old save stays intact. - A character captured near a Police Station that had already been destroyed could never be freed. A
The big one first: the in-game manual is now the fully remastered 179-page Midwinter manual - rewritten against the rebuilt game, proofread, in the style of the 1989 original. Open it from the Frostopedia: the gold READ THE MANUAL button. Fixes, mostly found while checking the ga
Thanks to everyone who bought Midwinter in week one. v23 is live (about 110 MB, automatic). Where the work went: the Arctic Survival School. I played all 20 lessons myself, fixed what I found, and had three independent code reviews on every test build. Result: every lesson can no
- Arctic Survival School: all 20 lessons re-tested and fixed; every lesson can be finished; lessons never touch or save your campaign; keys work as in the game (unused keys are dimmed); restart any lesson from its card, ESC, or the crash/out-of-bounds screens. - ESC menu anywhere